A New Poet Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABC DEF GHI CJK BLC MNB| Finding a new poet | A |
| is like finding a new wildflower | B |
| out in the woods You don't see | C |
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| its name in the flower books and | D |
| nobody you tell believes | E |
| in its odd color or the way | F |
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| its leaves grow in splayed rows | G |
| down the whole length of the page In fact | H |
| the very page smells of spilled | I |
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| red wine and the mustiness of the sea | C |
| on a foggy day the odor of truth | J |
| and of lying | K |
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| And the words are so familiar | B |
| so strangely new words | L |
| you almost wrote yourself if only | C |
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| in your dreams there had been a pencil | M |
| or a pen or even a paintbrush | N |
| if only there had been a flower | B |
Linda Pastan
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